Backchannelmedia

Backchannelmedia

GULFPORT and LONG BEACH, Miss., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Against All Odds Family Operated Oreck Corporation

Re-Opens Gulfport Area Plant Helps Employees Rebuild Lives

"With help of media running employee relief phone number

888-528-0088 we were able to locate employees. We have that

American will to survive," Oreck Corporation President /CEO Tom

Oreck said. "Initially 500 Oreck employees will be going back to

work at the Gulfport, Miss. plant Friday (note: September 9, 2005 Friday)," Oreck reported.

Oreck manufactures the popular 8-lb. Oreck vacuum cleaner, floor

cleaning products, air purifiers, household and industrial cleaning

supplies sold through 450 Oreck retail stores across the US and

direct response.

Since last week, 45-year-old, family operated Oreck Corporation purchased new mobile housing units for employees; contracted for food, water and supplies; purchased generators and storage tanks, thousands of gallons of diesel fuel. "All to help our 500 Mississippi employees start to rebuild their lives," Oreck said. "We will ensure they have safe and sanitary housing, food, water and a paycheck," he said. "If they were an Oreck employee before the hurricane they still have a job," said Oreck President and CEO Tom Oreck.

Factory Reopening Agenda Starting at 2 PM Friday September 9, 2005:

(1) restart of the factory and manufacturing.

(2) distribution of full payroll to 500+ hourly employees.

(3) direction of employees to the various "needs" tables (such as

insurance claims, crisis management counselors etc.)

(4) start of the on site housing program.

(5) announcement of the Oreck Employee Relief Program. Oreck Corp is

seeding this fund with $500,000.

Source: Oreck Corporation

CONTACT: Laurel Blair, lblair@blairworldwide.net , or Colleen Fahey, cfahey@blairworldwide.net , +1-312-337-7773, or 24 hours: +1-312-925-2636 or +1-312-259-1645, for Oreck Corporation